A considered, psychodynamic approach to therapy.
I work with adults navigating the difficulties — visible and hidden — that bring people to therapy. The aim is not to fix you, but to understand together what is happening, and to make more of yourself available to your own life.
Looking together at what tends to repeat.
Psychodynamic therapy assumes that what happens in our outer lives — the patterns we keep finding ourselves in, the moods we cannot quite shift, the people we keep choosing or avoiding — has roots that are worth understanding.
I tend to work in a relational, exploratory way. The sessions are not scripted. We notice what comes up, including in the room between us, and we try to make sense of it. Over time, that sense-making tends to loosen the grip of the things that brought you to therapy.
More than ten years in the working world before I trained.
Before becoming a therapist I spent over a decade as a manager, leader, consultant, coach, and social entrepreneur across the public sector, charities, social enterprise, and management consultancy — in the UK and internationally, including living and working in Eastern Europe.
That history is not the centre of the work, but it gives me a real-world feel for organisational pressure, leadership, identity at work, ambition, cross-cultural life, and the particular ways adult life can grind. I speak some Russian and have a long-standing interest in cross-cultural psychology.
Some of the themes that come up.
- ·Anxiety, depression, and low mood
- ·Work stress, burnout, and professional pressure
- ·Men's therapy and questions of masculinity
- ·Boarding school alumni
- ·Family and relationship difficulties
- ·Life transitions, grief, and change
- ·Social anxiety and self-esteem
- ·Cross-cultural work and international clients
I have particular interests in masculinity and gender equity, workplace difficulties, boarding school alumni, social anxiety, and the work of adjusting to change.
Trained, registered, and accountable.
I trained at the University of Oxford and hold a Postgraduate Diploma in Psychodynamic Practice. I am a registered member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (MBACP, profile 391805), and I work to its ethical framework.
I have worked with clients privately and at a central London therapy agency, and I receive regular clinical supervision.